Ladd Mercer - Leech

Once upon a time I wanted to be famous
Get real popular and sing to crowds on stages
Spent my 20s trying to join a band
Hoping to be the next Axl Rose
I was gonna have so many fans
Least that's what the fortune teller sold

I got lost so far from home
Searched for years I still don't know
What I want or where I'll go...

Found myself performing open mics
Once a week in Shanghai for two years
Mr Zhang and Lao Lu paid me right
And they hooked me up with some free beers

Couple shows here and there
No traction
Decade passed in thin air
I was distracted

I got lost so far from home
Searched for years I still don't know
What I want or where I'll go...

Here's to those who follow through
With what they say they're gonna do
Never thought I'd end up less than perfect
I thought wrong, wrote this song
Now it's time to act like who I respect

Disappointed how the bands I joined all broke up
Even though we played some shows where people loved us
Guess that's how it goes, no one got paid
Looking back it all starts to make sense
Other things like life got in the way
Spent too much time sitting on the fence

I got lost so far from home
Searched for years I still don't know
What I want or where I'll go...

Here's to those who follow through
With what they say they're gonna do
Never thought I'd end up less than perfect
I thought wrong, wrote this song
Now it's time to act like who I respect

Written by:
Ladd Mercer

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